85% of enterprises are running AI agents. Only 5% trust them enough to ship.

Eighty-five percent of enterprises are running AI agent pilots, but only 5% have moved those agents into production. In an exclusive interview at RSA Conference 2026 , Cisco President and Chief Product Officer Jeetu Patel said that the gap comes down to one thing: trust — and that closing it separates market dominance from bankruptcy. He also disclosed a mandate that will reshape Cisco's 90,000-person engineering organization. The problem is not rogue agents. The problem is the absence of a